By
Gaurav wakil
Posted on August 13, 2025
The main and important part to start any project is elicitation and collaboration technique, elicitation technique helps to gather various information from stakeholders, because of efficient gathering of any information the business analyst understand the goals and objective of any industry. so there are many techniques such as interview, JAD session, Brainstorming, focus group, workshop, surveys, Observation etc. Further research requires elicitation of data through systematic collaboration itself. The process involves gathering information and working together to achieve academic objectives.
combining multiple elicitation technique we come to know accurate needs of the stakeholders.We are seeing that the information and requirements we obtained only provide the foundation for finding a solution that brings value to the organisation. Getting information from stakeholders and working with them to achieve common goals is itself an essential part of a business analyst's job. This collaboration helps the organization move further towards its objectives.Elicitation is actually a method to get information from stakeholders. This process definitely helps discover what requirements are needed for the solution. Basically, it involves talking with stakeholders, doing research, experimenting, brainstorming, and the same time reaching out to external sources for information. This analysis task runs with other tasks, and any new information can further trigger more eliciting activities itself.
Collaboration means communication the main and important task of a BA is to communicate with stakeholders and with the developers due to efficient communication the project become successful. collaboration means creating purposeful connections to achieve goals and solve problems of the company. Elicitation technique can be successful because of good communication.
Basically, collaboration in business analysis means the same thing as in daily life - people working together towards the same goal. In this case, it surely means that business analysts and stakeholders work together to find, understand, and use all important information. Moreover, this cooperation helps them implement the relevant details properly.
Lets discuss about some elicitation technique
1. Interview – BA can take one to one session with stakeholder to gather information. There are two type of interview structured and unstructured interview in structured interview predetermined question has been asked with all candidates while in unstructured interview are more conversational and flexible.
2. Workshop – collaborative and group based discussion has been done in workshop where project team and stakeholders come together to define requirement.
3. Brainstorming – Were group of people come together to generate new ideas or solutions.
4. Document Analysis – BA study on existing documents of the company like agreement, manuals and business specification because of this BA come to knows to add new updated system or add new requirements.
5. Observation – Directly watching the stakeholder about how they interact with system or how they perform their task it helps to identify real world process.
6. Surveys/ Questionnaires – Distributing standard question to all stakeholders this process is done in large offices where we cant meet with stakeholders at a single place, because of this we can collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
7. Focus Group – Discussion done with a small group to gather feedback and opinions on a specific topic.